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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_C">Early C</span></h2>
<ul><li> 1969: B created, based on BCPL, to replace PDP-7 assembler as the system programming language for Unix
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> added operators <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">++</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">--</span></span></span>, compound assignment, remained a typeless language like BCPL
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 1971: NB ("new B") created when porting B to PDP-11
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> types (<span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">int</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">char</span></span></span>, arrays and pointers), array-to-pointer conversion, compilation to machine code
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 1972: Language renamed to C
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw1">struct</span></span></span>, operators <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy3">&amp;&amp;</span></span></span> and <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy3">||</span></span></span>, preprocessor, portable I/O
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<ul><li> 1973: Unix re-written in C
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">unsigned</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">long</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw1">union</span></span></span>, enumerations, increased type safety
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 1978: The C Programming Language, 1st edition
</li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Standard_C">Standard C</span></h2>
<ul><li> 1983: ANSI established X3J11 committee
</li><li> 1988: The C Programming Language, 2nd edition
</li><li> 1989: <b>C89</b>, the ANSI C standard published
</li></ul>
<ol><li> codified existing practices
</li><li> new features: <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">volatile</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw2">enum</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">signed</span></span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">void</span></span></span>, locales
</li><li> From C++: <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">const</span></span></span>, function prototypes
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 1990: <b>C90</b>, the ANSI C standard accepted as ISO/IEC 9899:1990
</li><li> 1994: Technical corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Cor.1:1994)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/tc1.htm">44 small changes</a>
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 1995: <b>C95</b> (ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amd.1:1995) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://infostore.saiglobal.com/store/Details.aspx?DocN=isoc000767513">online store</a>)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> greatly expanded wide and multibyte character support (<code>&lt;wctype.h&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;wchar.h&gt;</code>, additions and changes to stream I/O, etc)
</li><li> digraphs, <code>&lt;iso646.h&gt;</code>, 
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 1996: Technical corrigendum 2 (ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Cor.2:1996)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/tc2.htm">24 small changes</a>
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 1999: <b>C99</b> (ISO/IEC 9899:1999)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> new features: <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">bool</span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">long</span> <span class="kw4">long</span></span></span>, <code>&lt;stdint.h&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;inttypes.h&gt;</code>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">restrict</span></span></span>, compound literals, variable length arrays, flexible array members, designated initializers, <code>&lt;fenv.h&gt;</code>, variadic macros, complex numbers, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">__func__</span></span>, hexadecimal floating point format (<span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="sy2">%</span>a</span></span>), monetary formatting in <span class="t-lc"><a href="../locale/lconv.html" title="c/locale/lconv">lconv</a></span>, <span class="t-lc"><a href="../string/byte/isblank.html" title="c/string/byte/isblank">isblank</a></span>, concatenation of narrow and wide string literals, trailing comma in enumerations, empty arguments in function-like macros, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">STDC_<span class="sy2">*</span></span></span> pragmas, <span class="t-lc">va_copy</span>, null return of <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/tmpnam.html" title="c/io/tmpnam">tmpnam</a></span>, null pointer in <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/setvbuf.html" title="c/io/setvbuf">setvbuf</a></span>, <code>hh</code> and <code>ll</code> length-specifiers in <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/fprintf.html" title="c/io/fprintf">printf</a></span>, <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/fprintf.html" title="c/io/fprintf">snprintf</a></span>, <span class="t-lc"><a href="../program/_Exit.html" title="c/program/ Exit">_Exit</a></span>, <code>&lt;tgmath.h&gt;</code>, POSIX-like <span class="t-lc"><a href="../chrono/strftime.html" title="c/chrono/strftime">strftime</a></span> specifiers
</li><li> from C++: <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw1">inline</span></span></span>, mix declarations and code, declarations in the init-clause of the for loop, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="co1">//</span></span></span> comments, universal character names in source code
</li><li> removed implicit functions and implicit <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c"><span class="kw4">int</span></span></span>
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2001: Technical corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.1:2001)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/9899tc1/.">11 defects fixed</a>
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 2004: Technical corrigendum 2 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.2:2004)
</li><li> 2004: Unicode TR (ISO/IEC TR 19769:2004) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=33907">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1040.pdf">N1040</a> November 7, 2003 draft)
</li><li> 2007: Technical corrigendum 3 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.3:2007) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf">N1256</a> September 7, 2007 draft)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> deprecated <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/gets.html" title="c/io/gets">gets</a></span>
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 2007: Bounds-checking interfaces TR (ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38841">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1225.pdf">N1225</a> March 28, 2007 draft)
</li><li> 2008: Embedded TR (ISO/IEC TR 18037:2008) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51126">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1021.pdf">N1021</a> September 24, 2003 draft)
</li><li> 2009: Decimal floating-point TR (ISO/IEC TR 24732:2009) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38842">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1241.pdf">N1241</a> July 5, 2007 draft)
</li><li> 2009: Mathematical special functions TR (ISO/IEC TR 24747:2009) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38857">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1182.pdf">N1182</a> August 2, 2006 draft)
</li><li> 2010: Dynamic allocations functions TR (ISO/IEC TR 24731-2:2010) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51678">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1388.pdf">N1388</a> June 1, 2009 draft)
</li><li> 2011: <b>C11</b> (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=57853">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+9899-2012#.UGCvLIHyaHM">ANSI store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1570.pdf">N1570</a> April 12, 2011 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> thread-aware memory model, <code>&lt;stdatomic.h&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;threads.h&gt;</code>, type-generic functions, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">alignas</span></span>/<span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">alignof</span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">noreturn</span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">static_assert</span></span>, analyzability extensions, extensions to complex and imaginary types, anonymous structures and unions, exclusive file open mode, <span class="t-lc"><a href="../program/quick_exit.html" title="c/program/quick exit">quick_exit</a></span>
</li><li> removed <span class="t-lc"><a href="../io/gets.html" title="c/io/gets">gets</a></span>
</li><li> from Bounds-checking interfaces TR: bounds-checking interfaces, 
</li><li> from Unicode TR: <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">char16_t</span></span>, <span class="t-c"><span class="mw-geshi c source-c">char32_t</span></span>, and <code>&lt;uchar.h&gt;</code>
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2012: Technical corrigendum 1 (ISO/IEC 9899:2011/Cor 1:2012) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=61717">ISO store</a>)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><ul><li> Fixes <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_411">DR 411</a>
</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
<ul><li> 2013: Secure Coding Rules TS (ISO/IEC TS 17961:2013) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=61134">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1718.pdf">N1718</a> May 30, 2013)
</li><li> 2014: FP TS part 1: Binary floating-point arithmetic (ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=63146">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1778.pdf">N1778</a> 2013 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> provides changes to C11 (mostly to Annex F) that cover all basic requirements and some recommendations of IEC 60559:2011 (C11 was built on IEC 60559:1989)
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2015: FP TS part 2: Decimal floating-point arithmetic (ISO/IEC TS 18661-2:2015) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=68882">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1912.pdf">N1912</a> 2015 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> provides changes to C11 to support all the requirements, plus some basic recommendations, of IEC 60559:2011 for decimal floating-point arithmetic. This supersedes ISO/IEC TR 24732:2009.
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2015: FP TS part 3: Interchange and extended types (ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=65615">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1945.pdf">N1945</a> 2015 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> provides changes to C11 to support the recommendations of IEC 60559:2011 for extended floating‐point formats and the interchange formats, both arithmetic and non-arithmetic.
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2015: FP TS part 4: Supplementary functions (ISO/IEC TS 18661-4:2015) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=65616">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1950.pdf">N1950</a> 2015 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> provides changes to C11 to support all mathematical operations recommended by IEC 60559:2011, including trigonometry in π units, inverse square root, compounded interest, etc.
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2016: FP TS part 5: Supplementary attributes (ISO/IEC TS 18661-5:2016) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=65617">ISO store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2004.pdf">N2004</a> 2016 draft)
</li></ul>
<ol><li> provides changes to C11 to support all supplementary attributes (evaluation model, exception handling, reproducibility, etc) recommended by IEC 60559:2011
</li></ol>
<ul><li> 2018: <b>C17</b> (ISO/IEC 9899:2018) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html">ISO Store</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://files.lhmouse.com/standards/ISO%20C%20N2176.pdf">Final draft</a>)
</li></ul>
<dl><dd><a href="../17.html" title="c/17">Main Article: C17</a>
</dd></dl>
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<th style="background: #F0F2F5; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:115%">Defect Reports fixed in C17 (54 defects)</span>
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<ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_400">DR 400</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_401">DR 401</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_402">DR 402</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_403">DR 403</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_404">DR 404</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_405">DR 405</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_406">DR 406</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_407">DR 407</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_410">DR 410</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_412">DR 412</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_414">DR 414</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_415">DR 415</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_416">DR 416</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_417">DR 417</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_419">DR 419</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_423">DR 423</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_426">DR 426</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_428">DR 428</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_429">DR 429</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_430">DR 430</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_431">DR 431</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_433">DR 433</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_434">DR 434</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_436">DR 436</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_437">DR 437</a>
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</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_445">DR 445</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_447">DR 447</a>
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</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_458">DR 458</a>
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</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_464">DR 464</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_465">DR 465</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_468">DR 468</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_470">DR 470</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_471">DR 471</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_472">DR 472</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_473">DR 473</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_475">DR 475</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_477">DR 477</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_480">DR 480</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_481">DR 481</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_485">DR 485</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_487">DR 487</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2244.htm#dr_491">DR 491</a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Future_development">Future development</span></h3>
<ul><li> Parallelism TS (Draft <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2017.pdf">N2017</a> 2016-03-10)
</li><li> Transactional Memory TS (Draft <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1961.pdf">N1961</a> 2015-09-23)
</li><li> <b>C23</b> (Latest draft <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2912.pdf">n2912</a> 2022-06-07)
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<ol><li> List of issues that were not granted DR status: (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2556.pdf">N2556</a> 2020-08-02)
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<dl><dd><a href="../23.html" title="c/23">Main Article: C23</a>
</dd><dd>Next major C language standard revision
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<th style="background: #F0F2F5; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:115%">Defect Reports fixed in C23 (? defects)</span>
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</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2326.htm">DR 432</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2326.htm">DR 467</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_476">DR 476</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2324.htm">DR 482</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_488">DR 488</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2713.htm">DR 489</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_494">DR 494</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_496">DR 496</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_497">DR 497</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_499">DR 499</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_500">DR 500</a>
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2396.htm#dr_501">DR 501</a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h3>
<ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html">The Development of the C Language</a> by Dennis M. Ritchie
</li><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf">Rationale for the C99 standard</a>
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